Allen treads new territory with chilling ‘Match Point’
“The man who said I’d rather be lucky than good saw deeply into life.” This is the first line of dialogue in Woody Allen’s “Match Point,” but it echoes throughout the film all the way until the credits roll. If anyone in this movie sees deeply into life it is Allen himself, whose latest work is one of the year’s most perceptive meditations on human nature. It is a film of sinister implications made all the more chilling by the fact that its director is one of the great comedians of the cinema; when the characters talk of life as tragic and meaningless, I was doubly shaken by the suspicion that Allen himself did not necessarily disagree. More »
